Question

At 10:00 a.m. the temperature is –3.4°F. The temperature increases 0.5°F each hour for the next 6 hours. If the temperature drops a total of 5.3°F over the following 3 hours, what is the temperature at 7:00 p.m.?

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Answer 1

-16.3

Explanation:

First multiply 0.5 by 6 since the six hours and every hour is 0.5 degrees less or you can add 0.5 six times. You then take the answer which would be 3 and add 3 to -3.4 resulting in -0.4. Afterwards you would take -0.4 and subtract 5.3 degrees three times. This gives you -16.3 degrees. You would be at 7:00 PM because 10:00 a.m. plus six hours would be 4 o'clock and the next 3 hours would add on to 7.